Boris Tadic

Boris Tadic (15 January 1958-) was President of Serbia from 11 July 2004 to 5 April 2012, succeeding Predrag Markovic and preceding Slavica Dukic Dejanovic.

Biography
Boris Tadic was born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia in 1958. Seven of his relatives (including his maternal grandmother) were killed by the Croatian Ustase during World War II. Tadic worked as a journalist, military clinical psychologist and as a teacher of psychology at the First Belgrade Gymnasium, and he joined the social democratic Democratic Party of Serbia in 1990. His party was one of the parties that played a key role in Slobodan Milosevic's downfall in 2000, and he served as Telecommunications Minister from 2000 to 2003, as Defense Minister from 2003 to 2004, and as President from 2004 to 2012. He favored balanced relations with the United States, Russia, and the European Union, but his low approval ratings led to him losing the 2012 election to Slavica Dukic Dejanovic.